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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2019
Applicant:
Herrenknecht Aktiengesellschaft, Schwanau, DE;
Inventor:
Torsten Weiser, Seelbach, DE;
Assignee:
HERRENKNECHT AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Schwanau, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21D 9/11 (2006.01); E21D 9/00 (2006.01); E21C 39/00 (2006.01); E21C 35/24 (2006.01); E21D 9/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21D 9/112 (2013.01); E21D 9/003 (2013.01); E21C 35/24 (2013.01); E21C 39/00 (2013.01); E21D 9/108 (2013.01);
Abstract
A tunnel boring machine having a cutting wheel equipped with a number of excavation tools provided with sensor units and, in a corresponding tunnelling method, only substantially fully worn excavation tools are able to be replaced using a data processing device designed with an advancement planning unit by detecting the current state of the excavation tools and predicting the state of the excavation tools on tool replacement predication planes lying in the advancing direction.